A.M. Roundup

Good morning, hope everyone is staying dry, there are supposed to be some torrential downpours today, at least here in the Capital Region, complete with flood warnings.

Federal investigators are continuing to look at former Congressman John Sweeney and his relationship with former GOP Chairman Bill Powers, his lobbying firm and grants the Congressman got for Powers’ clients.

Yet another ex-lawmaker, Joe Bruno, starts his new job with a firm that does business with NYS among other government entities and the company has already drawn scrutiny for its hiring of other former government staffers.

Another former official, Eliot Spitzer, was indeed contacted by the Public Integrity Commission on Troopergate although it’s unclear when that happened.

More lawyers got snagged in Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s pension net including one who has represented at least one high profile criminal client (scroll down).

New York is clamping down on violent video games and on the watching of dog fights, all as part of the latest batch of laws signed by Gov. David Paterson.

In Decision ’08, While Barack Obama visits Israel’s Holocaust memorial, the candidate’s great-uncle recounted his WWII experience in helping liberate a concentration camp, although it wasn’t the one that Obama initially named.